Background Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) completed its Systems Portfolio in October 2007, and submitted it for review to AQIP in November 2007. The Systems Portfolio is a diagnostic snapshot of the college’s continuous improvement processes. The portfolio is reviewed by a group of external Higher Learning Commission peer reviewers (called systems appraisers) who read the document, ev...

Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality improvement design, the Plan, DO, Study, Act (PDSA) cycl...

ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERS PLAY A LEADing role in the development of new knowledge, yet the quality of care in academic hospitals is on average only modestly better than that of care provided by community hospitals. However, averages are also misleading. In one study evaluating care of patients with acute coronary syndrome, 15 of the 20 top-performing institutions were community hospitals....